Daniel McCleary

He may have had prior US Army service when, a 31 year old laborer, he enlisted in New York City on 14 October 1857 for a 5 year term and mustered as a Private in Company C, 4th United States Infantry.

He was with his company at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He was discharged on 14 October 1862 at camp near Sharpsburg, MD at the end of his enlistment. He reenlisted as a Private in the 14th US Infantry and served in Companies D of the First Battalion and H of the Second, and was promoted to Sergeant before his discharge at Fort Boise, ID on 24 August 1866.

He enlisted again, in Washington, DC on 5 November 1866 in the 44th United States Infantry, and transferred to Company K of the 17th US Infantry in 1867. He reenlisted in Norfolk, VA on 18 November 1869 in Company K of the 17th and was discharged in Washington, DC after "having rec'd [recovered] from insanity" on 5 December 1872. He began receiving a US pension for disability in August 1879.

His service from the Registers,1 also as Daniel McLeary. His presence at Antietam from research in his widow Mary's pension file kindly shared by Damian Shiels; Mary was receiving her pension in Belfast, Ireland by 1899.

Much more about US military pensions paid in Ireland may be found on Damian's Yankee Pensioners in Ireland 1845-1905: An Interactive Map.

c. 1826; County Derry, IRELAND